Julia Slavin

Julia Slavin is the author of The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club and Other Stories and the novel Carnivore Diet , which Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post chose as one of the best three books of fiction of 2005. Slavin is the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, GQ 's Frederick Exley Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and her stories have been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew. "Covered" was read by Alec Baldwin as part of the Symphony Space Selected...See more

Julia Slavin is the author of The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club and Other Stories and the novel Carnivore Diet , which Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post chose as one of the best three books of fiction of 2005. Slavin is the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, GQ 's Frederick Exley Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and her stories have been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew. "Covered" was read by Alec Baldwin as part of the Symphony Space Selected Shorts series, and the recording can be heard on the "Too Hot for Radio" podcast. She is currently working on another collection, Stories for Squatters . See less